Champagne Kisses

by Amanda Brunker

Like any great diva, Eva Valentine is a flawed character. Spoilt, stubborn and sassy, she exudes lioness confidence when in the company of her fellow bitches Maddie and Parker, and hungers for sex like others desire chocolate.

Eva is a woman who would kiss your girlfriend as quick as she’d steal your husband, but underneath this hard-nosed facade she’s just a regular girl who craves normality, and a love that she can call her own.

After CCTV images of a clumsy clinch with her very married boss make headlines in the Sunday papers, her whole world begins to crumble. Eva must come to terms with the harsh consequences of her reckless actions, but don’t think for a second that this would ever stop her fun. In Europe’s most expensive capital, beautiful people can always find rich friends to fly them to fabulous parties in London or glamorous holidays in Marbella.

Champagne Secrets

by Amanda Brunker

Eva the Diva is back! And she's going undercover ...

After capturing a bust up on an airplane between a group of footballers' wives on her camera phone, Eva is offered the chance of a lifetime - a new job as an undercover TV reporter. Her exciting new career means moving herself and little daughter Daisy to London and keeping the exact nature of her work secret from her colleagues at the TV production company. Even the new man in her life doesn't know what she's up to ...

It's not all high glamour in the big city though - a single mum in a new town needs support, so Eva moves in with her aunt's large brood, where the rough and tumble of family life is a stark contrast to the celebrity restaurants and nightclubs she visits in her quest to uncover all sorts of WAG drama.

But as the intrigue deepens and Eva is forced to tell more and more lies to hold her cover, will her secret prove to be her downfall? And will there ever be a real Mr Right? One things for sure, there'll be lots of naughty fun and games along the way ...

Come This Way Home

by Liz Lyons

One wet and stormy Irish summer, the three Miller sisters gather at their grand but shabby old family home, Tobar Lodge.

Gina, middle sister and mum to a troubled teenage girl, is doing her best to keep the old country house afloat by playing host to summer visitors who rent converted cottages on the land.

Eldest, Lottie, is home to lick her wounds after her latest romantic adventure has ended in disaster once again.

Rachel, the youngest, has led a more charmed life but this time is coming home accompanied by a family struggling after the collapse of her husband's business.

As family and strangers meet and collide, and a long hidden secret is exposed, they begin to discover that love and life is all about losing, yearning for and ultimately finding a place called home. By the time the holiday season draws to a close, all will realise that complications of past lives simmer just beneath the surface, a rich layer of secrets concealed from the eyes of others but keenly felt in the hearts of those to whom they belong.

Coming Home

by Patricia Scanlan

Two sisters…two very different lives.
Alison’s American dream is in tatters. Her highflying career is on the skids in the financial meltdown. Her Upper East Side apartment is now way beyond her means . But pride prevents her from telling her family back home just how bad things are. Olivia is fraught trying to juggle family, career, preparations for Christmas and organize a surprise party for their mother’s seventieth birthday. How she envies, and sometimes resents, her sister Alison and her life of excitement and affluence in New York.

Coming home is the last thing Alison wants to do, especially now that she’s met a rather attractive, sexy, down to earth neighbour who doesn’t believe in ‘non exclusive dating’ unlike her wealthy boyfriend, Jonathan. But family ties are strong. Alison and Olivia sort their differences, the party throws up a few surprises and Christmas brings changes for Alison that she could never have imagined before coming home

Dan Shanahan - If you don't know me, don't judge me: My Autobiography

by Dan Shanahan

Dan Shanahan is a legend in modern hurling and one of the best players of the modern era. His time as an inter-county senior hurler has coincided with the remarkable revival in Waterford’s fortunes, which has seen them win the Munster Final four times in the last decade, and reaching the All-Ireland Final in 2008.

In this candid and revealing autobiography, Dan speaks about his love of the game, which grew out of an idyllic childhood in Lismore. After his apprenticeship with the Lismore club and playing for the underage and minor teams, he made his debut as a senior player in 1998, under the management of Gerald McCarthy. But it was when Justin McCarthy took over as manager in 2002 that the Waterford team really began to shine.

Yet tensions between the players and manager built up in 2007/2008, culminating in a frustrated Dan famously refusing to shake Justin’s hand when he was taken off during a game. The player dissatisfaction continued until Justin McCarthy resigned. He was replaced by Davy Fitzgerald, who led them to the 2008 All-Ireland Final, which they lost to Kilkenny.

Throughout his career, like many star players in hurling and football, Dan has had to deal with the tension between the unpaid amateur status of the game and the expectations of a general public, media and management who demand high levels of professionalism and dedication from the players.

A tattoo on Dan’s arm carries the message: If you don’t know me, don’t judge me.